Could Anyone Help Me ( Rugby Ball Help )

[Steve-Haggis]

Could anyone help me on how to do a simple rugby ball.

Im very new to 3ds Max and i really want some help.

All im looking for is the shape (including the stiches) Ill texture it myself.


Thanks

[Honki]

you could use 4 boxes jammed together. I will post an explanation.

[Honki]

or extrude some edges of a sphere.

[Honki]

Make a sphere with segments divisible by 4.
Make it longer.
Extrude the lines of the 4 quadrants inwards a couple of times
Meshsmooth it's arse.

Takes about 2mins ;)

[Honki]

see attached

[Steve-Haggis]

Woah...Nice...Im gonna give it a try.

EDIT:

Ok i tried it.. but i done know what you mean by extrude the 4 quadrants.
I try to make an x shape down the side and make them smaller...but it looks stupid

[Digital_Babu]

"Extrude the lines of the 4 quadrants inwards a couple of times"

What he means is if you have a spheroid if you take the two intersecting meridians of that sphere. It is divided in 4 equal part, hence the 4 quadrants.

You should edge extrude these two lines, make the base of the extrusion small.

I hope this helped.

[Steve-Haggis]

Well kinda.

Ill muck around with it until i get it

[Steve-Haggis]

http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=erorqq9.png

This happens.

Could you please tell me how to do it again..but in an easier form for me to understand

[Digital_Babu]

I'm sorry I won't be able to do the actual steps in Max for the next 3 hours, perhaps someone else could jump in and help?

I'll give it a try from the top of my head:

- create a sphere with 8 segments.
- edit it's shape according to a rugby ball.
- convert to editable poly.
- sub-object edge
- select the vertical and horizontal loop.
- select extrude edges, make the base about 0,8 and extrusion about -1,5 (wild guess).
- apply turbosmooth.

This should work properly, good luck.

[Honki]

Step 1.

A sphere with 16 sides.

[Honki]

Step 2.

Convert to editable poly, and make that bitch longer.

[Honki]

Step 3.

Select these edges.

[Honki]

step 4.

Extrude inwards and adjust with scale tool.

[Honki]

Step 5.

Meshsmooth.

Be aware, you will get odd looking ends due to the 3 sided polys.
If you wanted, you could go back and make quads out of them.

[Honki]

This is how I would do a "simple" rugby ball.

A better way would to make a sphere with more segments (64 preferably), delete 3/4 of it (3 of the 4 ball panels) and make one panel. You can then polar array the panel to finish the ball.

Whilst more time consuming, you will get a better result.

I will post an example later.

[Honki]

delete these faces

[Honki]

Delete these faces

[Honki]

Quickslice along here, this will turn your 3 sided poly's into quads.

[Honki]

Delete the resulting 3-sided polys, and select the border of the remaining mesh. De-select the bottom edges.

[Honki]

Extrude the edges inward once only.

[Honki]

Mirror (Copy) and Attach the 2 together. Weld the vertices along that bottom edge.

[Honki]

Polar array, elongate, and meshsmooth.
Done.

Obviously this is still not the best that can be acheived, but is ok as an example.

Hope it helps you.

GO THE WALLABIES!

[Steve-Haggis]

Thanks Man..

Sorry for being a pain :D

[Honki]

Your welcome, post your results and we can see how you went.

[Steve-Haggis]

Ok..Im gonna texture the ball but here it is so far

http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rugbyal2.png

[Honki]

Looking good. Check out this tutorial....
http://www.suurland.com/tut_grass/tutorial_grass_r3.htm

[Steve-Haggis]

Yes...That might be better :D